Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 02:30:04 +0000
The concept of putting floating solar panels on pumped hydro reservoirs is fascinating, but not a slam dunk. This 2nd article covers an additional six pros and cons
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 01:48:53 +0000
The concept of putting floating solar panels on pumped hydro reservoirs is fascinating, but not a slam dunk. This 1st article covers evaporation management
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:07:15 +0000
While Jacobson’s latest Stanford study on 100% renewables by 2050 will draw fire for leaning into the Green New Deal, it strongly supports that policy
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:06:12 +0000
Jacobson’s latest study carefully uses with current technologies and currently available resources for storage and transmission. The latest evidence is that there are much cheaper alternatives than his team models, underselling the potential
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:05:34 +0000
100% renewables for 143 countries covering 99.7% of global energy carbon emissions is very inexpensive compared to business as usual in Jacobson’s latest
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 01:02:30 +0000
“Seven Challenges for Energy Transformation 2019,” a report by Rocky Mountain Institute, was launched during three connected international events in Delhi, Beijing, and New York that convened the world’s leading energy stakeholders and catalysts to kickstart a global effort to accelerate the energy transition and mitigate the climate crisis
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 04:40:46 +0000
The Homer Electric Association is a cooperative that serves customers who live south of Anchorage, Alaska. It is installing a 93 MWh energy storage battery supplied by Tesla.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 18:25:58 +0000
Democratic candidates for President should elevate pumped storage hydro into a coal-country vote winner as well as a climate change winner
Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:48:32 +0000
In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan is back again with Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc and CleanTechnica contributor, to talk about one solution to current energy storage limitations: closed-loop pump storage hydropower
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 01:24:53 +0000
The most popular CleanTechnica stories last week included fun content about an off-grid month with SunPower solar panels + Tesla Powerwalls, the just-beginning economies of scale Tesla is getting from its gigafactories, a pitch for Elon Musk’s The Boring Company getting into pumped hydro, Tesla dominating US electric vehicle sales, and much more. Scroll down for the headlines and click through to the ones that tickle your fancy!